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Our current day is so dominated by nationalist rhetoric that I can't imagine what this would even look like on an international stage. It sometimes seems like t
by darby_eight 3y ago
Our current day is so dominated by nationalist rhetoric that I can't imagine what this would even look like on an international stage. It sometimes seems like there's always a convenient excuse to put state politics ahead of humanity itself....
- 6510 3y agoCompanies use to be the same complete with executions and slavery. We now have a clumsy but workable set of rules for that. The only thing that gets in the way of making the same for government is apathy and nihilism. We don't believe we each have an important role to play. If we ever do it will be much like nationalism.
- lupire 3y agoGovernment is the only reason that companies use less slavery now in the past.
- t0bia_s 3y agoWhat kind of slavery you talking about?
- lupire 3y agoThe kind where people are compelled to work for someone else's benefit under threat of force.
- t0bia_s 3y agoAren't we forced to pay taxes or obey a laws of governments that we don't even voted for?
- darby_eight 3y agoWhile there are certainly many other forms of slavery than the sort of chattel slavery that we've supposedly collectively moved beyond, I don't think it's a very controversial statement to point out that capital would happily resume buying and selling labor as assets directly if governments didn't stop them.
- darby_eight 3y agoI'm not sure I buy this progressive narrative, but i for damn sure don't expect anything from my employer that isn't legally obligated. Anyway, corporations still engage in slavery with open endorsement from major powers including the US: they just launder it through supply chains that are broadly outside the reach of states with leverage over them. See eg the supreme court's repeated endorsement of slave labor outside the US (thank you Nestle & Neal Katyal).